Management

Management in businesses and organizations is the function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives by using available resources efficiently and effectively.

Management includes planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization to accomplish the goal or target. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources. Management is also an academic discipline, a social science whose objective is to study social organization.

Etymology

The English verb "manage" comes from the Italian maneggiare (to handle, especially tools), which derives from the two Latin words manus (hand) and agere (to act).

The French word for housekeeping, ménagerie, derived from ménager ("to keep house"; compare ménage for "household"), also encompasses taking care of domestic animals. The French word mesnagement (or ménagement) influenced the semantic development of the English word management in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Rory Vaden

Rory Vaden, (born July 26, 1982, United States) is a bestsellingauthor, keynote speaker and co-founder of Southwestern Consulting.

Early life

Vaden was born in Boulder, Colorado. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate from the University of Denver (2006), where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Management and an MBA concurrently.

Career

While attending the University of Denver, Vaden was recruited by another student to participate in a sales internship at Southwestern Advantage, a division of Southwestern Company. After graduating from the university, he was invited to start a speaking and consulting division of the company named Southwestern Consulting.

Speaking

As a top producer at Southwestern Advantage, Vaden began speaking after being invited by the program to give a presentation. Before earning a fee, he took the stage a total of 304 times.

On August 25, 2007, Vaden placed 2nd at the Toastmasters International Speech Contest, a competition that included 25,000 contestants from more than 100 countries, and earned enough recognition to receive his first paid speaking appearance.